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Abstract: Evidential clustering is a promising clustering framework using Dempster–Shafer belief function theory to model uncertain data. However, evidential clustering needs to estimate more ...

A researcher at the Museum of Natural Sciences is using volunteer scientists to probe the universe for a mysterious type of black hole.

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ABSTRACT: This work describes a data integration model using the Statistical Matching methodology (hot deck distance) to integrate two surveys conducted by ISTAT (EU-SILC) and the Bank of Italy ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...